Check out our first round; www.freedformhawaii.com/wholesale and follow the link to Koa blanks.
Yes. For sure!
Please. I would be honored
Me me me!! And Iām in Hilo!
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I guess I was a few hours late as you probably sold out in minutes 
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Any idea when youāll release the 2nd round? Koa is a type of wood that Iāve been wanting to work with! Your merchandise is quite lovely!
I visited a furniture maker on the Big Island a couple of years ago, and they were selling Koa scraps - I napped two flat-rate boxes worth, and have been working my way through them on my Xcarve. But I would love to get some laser-ready 1/8" Koa blanks, great idea! Iāve put my name down in your signup list.
Aloha! I would like to say in about 2 weeks. Since interest seems high, we are trying to go a little bigger this time, so everyone has a chance to get their hands on some. This requires us to do a bit more legwork, rather than just staying home and sanding up our own excess little pieces; this time, weāre driving to Hilo to visit a friend who has some milled stock in a warehouse, then taking that stock to get resawn at a mill, then cutting everything to size and sanding it at our house, so thisāll take some time. Hopefully itāll be worth the wait, however; weāre hoping to pick up about 10 board feet of good curly stock, which should provide quite a bit of 1/8th inch thick blanks. We will give an update when weāre getting close, and share a few pictures of the process. Mahalo!
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Might be worth checking to see if people need these sanded or if rough sawn would be sufficient. Sanding takes a disproportionate amount of time to get done - your throughout would be much higher if the recipients sanded it for themselves. Theyāre going to have to finish it anyway.
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Youāve done great ā¦ I received my order and love the wood! I have been looking at it every day and trying to decide whether to cut it now or does it need to wait to adjust to the difference in the humidity here (middle of the USA). I canāt decide what to make. I am hoping we can get a thread going showing what people are making from this beautiful wood.
Thank you for the opportunity to try something new and truly beautiful.
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Thank you so much for the positive report! That would be amazing if we could get a thread going, Iād love to know where all this Hawaiian Koa is ending up in the world. Mahalo!
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Iām excited to get my order next week.
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I got my order the other day, and itās awesome! I canāt wait to play with it, I have some ideas for what to do. Itās really nicely finished and matched. Thanks for making this available!
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My order came in and is awesome. I would really like to see 1/4" big area pieces,
Very glad you like your Koa! There are quite a few 12x9 panels of Koa still available, but there was no way for us to go any bigger than that. Have fun!
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